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[1]: 124 Most of objects taken by the French Army were lost to the British, including the sarcophagus of Nectanebo II and the Rosetta Stone, after the Battle of the Nile in 1798, and were sent to the British Museum instead. [48] The French scholars' studies culminated in the Mémoires sur l'Égypte and the monumental Description de l'Égypte ...
The list of Bronze Age hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC.
This is a list of the most-visited museums in France in 2023, as reported as of January 14, 2024. It is based on statistics from the French Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Île-de-France region. and "Le Figaro" (January 6, 2024), and the list of the Club-Innovation & Culture published on 6 January 2024.
Romano-British objects in the British Museum (22 P) Pages in category "Prehistory and Europe objects in the British Museum" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The British Museum loaned a tribal warrior’s shield – carved from red mangrove wood and thought to date back to the New South Wales of the late 1700s – to the National Museum of Australia in ...
The reliquary was featured in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects, in which Neil MacGregor described it as "without question one of the supreme achievements of medieval European metalwork", [2] and was a highlight of the exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe at the British Museum from June ...
The Ashmolean Museum, opened in 1683 in Oxford, is considered the first public museum in history, in that anyone could access the exhibitions by paying the admission fee. [1] The British Museum in London was founded in 1753 thanks to the collection of physicist Hans Sloane, and in 1759 was also open to the public. [2]